Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’

The Times reported at the weekend that the "Muslim birthrate" is significantly higher than the British average, and that "Almost a tenth of babies and toddlers in England and Wales are Muslim." Richar...
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The devil is in the detail, but nowhere else, if the Church of England has any say in the matter. Henceforth, Anglican christenings will drop the word “devil” from the service. Parents and god-par...
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Isn't the job of conservatives to bring the bad news? Not so says Fraser Nelson, who writes in The Spectator that 2013 was the best year on record. War is less common, death by Malaria less likely, fe...
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A chilling blog post by my colleague Alan Johnson this morning documents the horror of religious violence against Christians: there have been brutal stories, recently, about attacks on ancient Christi...
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Archbishop Carey has grown in stature since he retired from Canterbury in 2002. When he speaks about the persecution of Christians abroad, he does so with passion and authority. When he warns not to d...
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Aged eight, my daughter knew that she must take her shoes off when entering a mosque. But ask her to recite the Ten Commandments, and she couldn’t. This, despite being at a Catholic state primary. I...
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I was sitting in Rupert Shortt’s kitchen interviewing him for Fathom Journal about his book Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack. When some leading politicians are asked to protest the persecu...
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listen to ‘The West's strange silence on the martyred Christians of the Muslim world’ on Audioboo The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that Christians are suffering "mass martyrdom" in the Muslim...
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When did atheists become so teeth-gratingly annoying? Surely non-believers in God weren't always the colossal pains in the collective backside that they are today? Surely there was a time when you cou...
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Back in the 16th century, John Calvin expressed a certain amount of scepticism over the relics of the True Cross that had proliferated over Europe. "There is no abbey so poor as not to have a specimen...
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